"Just as television coverage during Vietnam brought shocking images of war into living rooms, so today's communications technology has the potential to immerse already anxious families in the raw experience of combat, while miring soldiers in domestic problems that distract from the mission."
Neither my mother, or father or brother (older)
ever knew I went to Viet Nam
UNTIL after I came back.
The post office on my ship used to place a stamp on each outgoing piece of mail to them so they were not
tipped off by the free postage.
They were in my hometown of Chicago
and subject to the growing anti war crowds.
My thought why should they worry about me.
Good point, Tonk...sometimes the communications are not what we want our families to hear.
But, the supportive messages are necessary IMO.
Somebody already made my main point...a Colonel's wife is reduced to Ms. ... as though she's unmarried or still a little girl. How demeaning can you be? Oh, that's right. She's part of the military. Can't be bothered with those people's feelings, right?
Geez Tonk. You're about to make me cry.